Patience Quotes - Page 9

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Practice humility and patience.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.